Prashanthi won
2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from
Kovur Assembly Constituency representing
Telugu Desam Party. She polled 1,30,623 votes and defeated her nearest rival,
Nallapareddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy of the
YSR Congress Party by a margin of 54,583 votes. In September 2021, she was nominated to the Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam Trust board as a Trust member.
Controversy A controversy broke out on 7 July 2025, when former Kovur MLA
Nallapureddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy of
YSR Congress Party, allegedly made derogatory remarks against Prashanthi Reddy. Later on 7 July night, unidentified miscreants allegedly ransacked Prasanna Kumar Reddy's house in
Nellore, and threatened his mother when she was alone at home. Prasanna Kumar Reddy filed a complaint with the Superintendent of Police and named members of Vemireddy family and their followers as suspects. Prashanthi denied the allegations and said, the remarks against her amounted to 'character assassination' and threatened to file a defamation case against Prasanna Kumar Reddy and also filed a complaint with the
National Commission for Women. She also submitted a complaint to the Additional Superintendent of Police Ch. Soujanya in Nellore and an FIR was registered on 10 July against Prasanna Kumar Reddy including under section 74 of the
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for 'assault or use of criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty'. == References ==